We decided to take the train to the city of Reims, about 125km from Paris, a short 45min train ride on the TGV, full speed is 320km/h.
This is the capital of the Champagne region, and many Champagne houses are located here.
French morning snack.
We then took a tour of the cellars at Tattinger. The last stage of fermentation of the wine is done in old chalk mines that existed in Roman times of the fourth century up to 20 metres underground. There are 4km of tunnels here holding 3 million bottles of Champagne.
The chapel of a monastry that is now buried in the complex of the nearby St Rémi destroyed in the French revolution.
72,000 of the bottles.
The Roman chalk mine, you can see te markings of the tools used to cut out the chalk blocks.
A tasting.
St Rémi Bascilica.
The very grand Notre Dame of Reims. This is where French monarchs were crowned for hundreds of years, the equivalent of Westminster Abbey in England.
Third century Roman gate to the town.
The building where the treaty between the west and the Germans on the 7th of May 1945 ending the world war in Europe.
Mumm Champagne.
